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Today Congressman Kevin Cramer offered the following statement after the U.S. State Department released its latest environmental impact statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline:

"This latest State Department document adds to a pile of 15,500 pages of existing review on the most studied pipeline in history. Six years after the application to build Keystone XL was first submitted, Americans are still asking President Obama why he has not approved a project which will solve infrastructure problems and create jobs. Now the State Department says it needs even more time to determine whether construction is in the national interest. It should be as abundantly clear to the President as it is to me and the overwhelming majority of Americans that pipelines are the safest and most efficient way to move oil to market, and this country needs the thousands of jobs Keystone would provide. There is no question building this pipeline is in the national interest, and President Obama should demonstrate leadership by approving it immediately."